How to Instantly Improve Your Fly Casting with This Tape Trick (both Single and Double handed rods)
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- In this video, I will show you how to instantly improve your fly casting (both single-handed and double-handed rods) with this simple yet effective tape trick. The crazy thing is all you really need is a good old tape. You can start doing this exercise in the comfort of your home. By the time you are ready to get on the water next time, you will feel like a new fisherman.
I don't know how I came up with it, but this is EXACTLY the hand mechanics I teach newbies! The tape is a genius tip!
One of the very few YT vids about fly casting technique that I dont want to rip off. Proper vid!
thank you Bernd. I am happy you enjoy the content and that it has been helpful to you.
This excellent. I have been exposed to fantastic teachers like Joan Wullf. I will use this in teaching and as a practice drill. Well done
One of if not the best casting videos I have seen. Bravo 👏🏻
Just came across this so simple to follow as opposed to watching people’s hands trying to see when they’re bending wrist etc!, pure perfect demonstration and exercise I’ve just started double hand and so informative cheers .D
Great help with the forward cast in a two handed rod. I've been looking for such a long time for a simple and practical drill like this. Sincere thanks.
I have had problems with open and tailing loops and been searching for something simple to help me break this trend. Appreciate this super easy to follow tutorial. THANKS!
the pleasure is mine!
The best cast class I've ever seen. Thanks and good luck. 👍
Thank you thank you. Good luck to you as well
Thank you! Just went to the pond this am... No signle tip has made more impact on my casting that this video. My looping and my distance was VASTLY improved immediately.
Wow I am very happy to hear that it helped you
Nice clip. Don't forget about the shoulder as well. The caster is actually using all 3 joints. Wrist, elbow and shoulder all have to work together in unison.
Wonderfully clear instructional video. I'll give this a flick on the weekend! Thanks.
Thank you for your kind words!
Great info ! Thank You !
GENIUS!!! Thank you, Sir!!!
Best explanation of "breaking the wrist" I've seen yet.
Thank you :)
Thank you VERY much for that tip.
The best. Thank you!!!
Well presented and thank you for this tip ! 🙃
Yesss!!! Finally a not too wordy, clear visual, helpful video, on the subject. Thank you!!!
Really really good. Thanks
Excellent 👏👏👏
Nice video. Thank you for sharing your tips.
Unbelievable. I feel like this is going to really help me with my cast. You just got a new subscriber. Thanks so much!
Some great tips, glad I found your site.
thank you John!
Excellent tip, and very well explained. Thank you.
Thank you!
Good demo, especially the application of WHEN the wrist fires.
Thank you very much Peter!
Game changing!!
Thank you!
Thank you
Great.
So simple it is brilliant thank you
thank you for your kind words
Great demo! Get back on the horse and make more fly casting, fly tying, and fly fishing 🎣 videos! I just found your channel and subscribed. Great 👍🏽 work! Don’t stop.
EZ and Great trick for muscle memory
Thank you so much. I wish I found this sooner and I especially I wish I saw this before I was out today making very ugly casts. This is invaluable!!!
I am very happy to hear that you find this video helpful Zack. Thank you for your kind words.
Thanks
Awesome tutorial fly casting😀👍
Thank you!!
Much like the bowler's wrist brace, they make a special wrap that attaches to the fly rod and wraps around your wrist to keep your wrist from moving.
Great video, I haven't seen yours before. On your initial back cast, I would throw in a few key factors when teaching. Your initial back cast should begin when a few things happem first, you have the rod tip low to the water and your line tight. Then, with line tention lift the rod tip to a 9.5-10 o'clock position to start cast .
Great clip, I was thinking there is a transition part between Key position and the Power stop. 🤔 Another critical part is the angles the hand position plays to form the “critical angle “between the rod shaft and fly line when in the key position, it’s important to talk about what angle is the most efficient to start the cast from the key position, the closer we are to the 90 degree angle between the rod shaft and fly line, the less efficient the cast will be. Braking the wrist it’s a essential part to achieve the best efficient angle in fly casting, which is the one closer to the 180.
Hope it makes sense, thank you for the time and work !
Hello gentleman.
Thankyou, I enjoyed your video and thought it was of great benefit. It reminded me of some casting tuition I had in the UK, at a Country Fair a few years ago.
The gentleman was called David Wolstencroft-Dodds. He is an expert Pike flyfisherman, and has written many books, and is a Pike fishing ghille/guide too.
He told me to trap a book in-between my elbow and body, of casting arm. You haven't to drop the book! I found that very beneficial and improved my casting no end. It makes the elbow more of a fulcrum, not waggling around everywhere, and makes the rod work so much better.
Just an idea my friends.
Best wishes and tight lines, Ian.
Thank you Ian for your kind words and your idea. Your proposed idea is very clever indeed. This little tip can help so many people with fly casting. Thank you for sharing!
@@wisitchan Hey, hello my friends.
Real nice to hear from you. I presumed you would already have known about the book under the arm strategy. So if its helped you guys, or anyone reading this, that's great.
I see us fly fishermen/women, as a great family, who help each other out regardless. Nice having ladies involved too. I love watching them cast. Many of them are fantastic casters.
Good luck to you all, in this exciting time, with a new season just around the corner and hopefully covid free x.
@@ianwoods1384 Yes, finger crossed!
thank you for a tip, it is a very good lesson for the beginners. I've spend 200USD just only for it.
Thank you for your kind words. I have spent some more on casting class myself. I believe that everyone should invest in good fly casting lesson from certified casting instructors. It is a great investment in the long term. My tape tip is only meant to be a supplement exercise and I am happy you found it helpful!
😅I like IT very god information for
me fly Scholl in Slovakia thanks you wery much
You are welcome!
taking a few rods out today thank you,
That is perfect!
This is such a good video. How do you not have more subscribers?
Thank you for your kind words. I just have to put out more quality videos like this one. You gave me more season to do that with this kind of comment :)
Un saludo desde Colombia 🇨🇴 🇨🇴 cuantos metros de línea puedo castear o lanzar con tu técnica ? Gracias 🙏👍🎣
Il faut faire une rotation du buste comme au golf, les yeux vers l’objectif, les jambes ne bougent pas, les épaules bougent et la tête vers l’objectif.
Outstanding presentation!!!!
qual o comprimento da fita adesiva?
I have a habit of breaking my wrist in the key position - this will be an excellent reminder of what not to do!
Quick question, I see that by using the tape trick, you hand is right against the wall and the and the rod and reel stays pointed perpendicular to your body during both the back and forward cast(like it stays in a straight line the whole time). While in some of your other videos and other casting tutorials, I see casters have their reel pointed like 45 degrees off perpendicular from the body during the back cast. Should I start off with casting like I would if I was against the wall and then slowly adjust it to the latter? Thanks for the video.
That is up to you (your style), and fishing environments. For example, if there are lots of over hanging tree branches above your head then it is probably safer for you to cast a bit to your side to avoid getting snagged. On the other hand, if there no obstacle above your head then you can cast more vertically ( similar to positioning oneself against the wall). The most important thing to remember is that once you start to cast on a particular plane: either straight up vertically (like the positioning against the wall) or 45 degree to the side, YOU CANNOT CHANGE THE PLANE during the rest of the cast. Let me know if this makes sense to you.
You have a great tailing loop tendency in a forward cast my friend min.5.10 and min.5.14
Admittedly so. I will have to pay more attention next time. Thank you for pointing that out.
@@wisitchan you’re welcome 🤗
How long does the tape have to be? Sorry I might have missed that part lol
There is no specific length but I guess it you want me to put a specific number to it then I would say 1 foot of length for short cast and 1.5 to 2 feet of length for long cast. Hope this helps.
Tuck the rod butt into your sleeve to control the wrist.
I think someone already came up with that idea. I want to introduce an original idea
I fish off the coast in Denmark (so not surf casting....;- ), but due to back problems, I can't use a single hand rod, but are trying to make a two handed swift rod work, being very new in it, I struggle a bit to avoid tailing loops though, but there's not much to be found on YT about overhand two-hand casting, so thát could maybe be an idea for a video....??? ;- ) ;- ) ;- )
I am making a new video on two handed rod casting tip right now. I think you will find this new tip helpful. Please stay tuned!
@@wisitchan Sounds great....!!!
I realize that you are focusing on forearm and wrist, but you leave out a key component of efficient casting...the trunk. For most people, the wrist and forearm will tire and lose position over a day of fly casting. Good fly casters add in trunk rotation to add power and to reduce that wrist action between the key and punch that you are demonstrating. Gaining power from the trunk is a matter of timing of course, but just as the straight left arm eliminates unnecessary hinges in the golf swing, using the trunk allows you to minimize the errors of over flexing the wrist at the back of the cast and wearing out the wrist with that flex at the front of the cast;)
Dommage que ce ne soit pas traduit en français......
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@4:37 -> --5:00--, you are breaking your wrist as soon as you initiate the backcast- that is incorrect. In fact, when you demo the actual cast on the lawn, you are not making that mistake.
The bottom line is that wrist action is used at the end of the stroke, both on the forward cast and backcast; and you should not initiate either stroke with a wrist action.
It would have been beneficial to see you false cast for a much longer duration to allow beginners to see the proper technique.
Yes, you are absolutely right. I should have paid more attention to what I was doing because this discrepancy can confuse people. Thank you for noticing it. I will be more careful next time.
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Bad advice you need to break the wrist a little bit because your key position would point the rod up now horizontal behind you otherwise you’re never gonna get that straight line going
Hi Dylan, I totally get what you are trying to say. breaking wrist backward at Key position certainly comes in handy when the angler wants to open up the loop a bit more to cast bigger flies, or when the angler wants to cast very long distance for example. But this video is intended to eliminate open loop while casting in short to medium distances.
Again, for longer casts I totally agree with you that breaking the wrist in the key position can really help to stabilize the rod tip path. But as I demonstrated in this video that without breaking wrist you can still maintain straight rod tip path for short and medium cast with no double hauling. Thank you for your input.
Not sold, the line should be brought forward in a continued acceleration ending in a dead stop. Now if you can accelerate while your breaking your wrist......... Ever think about putting your thumb behind the rod single or double handed? I like your tape demo for the double handed rod though. Often casters will let their right hand and arm wander off the casting line. Probably inefficient for the forward stroke. The lower hand I don't think would ever be in a vertical postion below the right. Why should it be?
Since I'm an artist/inventor/designer, and never will make fly fishing video, I'll share this for free. Watch those tiny girl gymnastics, that jump around with that long flag thingy. As long as your set up is well proportioned, you can do all kinds of funny usefull things, as long as you keep pulling the line. I like to play, as much as possible, and I do things, I've never seen others do, since I had to learn from a few books and no videos, where nobody else flyfished. Define the problem - find/invent the sollution. And very important - ALWAYS eye protection, and always ENJOY. B)
Oh dear how did I end up here ? go fishing and figure it out self discovery it’s easy
we don't know, and we don't like it either. but here you are, making a comment on something you don't seem to care about?
needed some attention, eh? well here ya go, chump. now, back to moms basement and play video games.
Trying to figure out your casting whilst fishing probably isn’t the best time.
But your demo with the tape on the wall is wrong as you are showing your hand such that the rod would be near horizontal behind you. Which is not what you are doing and as you know would make a bad cast.
Absolutely, the rod should not be horizontal at the key position. My bad if the demonstration wasn't clear. Thank you for pointing that out.
The tape should not be on a horizontal plane. The rod bends and recovers therefore the plane must be diagonal other wise the rod tip will travel in a curve. You do this with the two handed rod but not with the single handed rod. They should be the same plane.
Explain. Why would the direction of the tape matter? If the rod tip travels in a curve, and I’m not so sure it does, how would any linear direction ameliorate that curve?
Great explanation. I'll be practicing this before my fall first-time-ever fly fishing trip.
Hope the trip went well!